"Heading towards their 15th anniversary in 2012, the German-British trio Konk Pack continues to be the gold standard against which any band of electro-acoustic improvisers must be measured. Characterized by a unity in conception and creation the tracks on this ...
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"The sixth record of the Avant-Core-noise trio Steamboat Switzerland was created in collaboration with the composer Felix Profos. He originated the four-part, fully noted accurately score ťGet Out Of My RoomŤ on which the musicians response in their her own way. No ...
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"The present recording documents the solo performance of Wolfgang Stryi at the Frankfurt Pol-Festival in 2000. It was one of those events where his special talent - to shape musical time and to take a public on his risky and uncertain tonal hike - was most beautifully ...
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"Aside from Keith Rowe and fully independent of him, Masayuki Takayanagi was the first guitarist to use the table-top guitar, thereby instigating a purely incomprehensible noise. The Japanese priests of noise, Keiji Haino, Otomo Yoshihide and Merzbow all went to his ...
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"Gene Coleman, bass clarinetist, long-standing protagonist of Chicago's most varying experimental and avant-garde scene (he can be heard, among others, on the albums of Gastr Del Sol), a festival organizer and curator on the go, lives mostly from his compositions. He ...
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"Off Leash is the third release of the delicate high-energy trio Konk Pack - founded in 1998 and made up of Thomas Lehn on EMS-synthesizer, Roger Turner on drums and Tim Hodgkinson on la-top steel guitar and clarinet. Big Deep (1999, GROB 102) was a selection of their ...
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""Improvisation not a fetish, but rather as material, as an object of process, as a means to save past gestures, those hardly left in memory - this is the musical procedure of the Frankfurt trio Blank. Blank consists of Oliver Augst (voice, no-input mixing board, ...
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""Building Excess" was recorded on July 4 last year in the legendary Vienna studio of Christoph Amman (Absinth (GROB 435) was also recorded here as were numerous other recordings of the Vienna scene from Radian to Werner Dafeldecker). mattin had a stipend and was able ...
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"Hidden behind the cryptic abbreviation NMUI is North European Melody and Improvisation Orchestra [in German, Nordeuropäische Melodie- und Improvisationsorchester]. A group, which in addition to Johansson (on drums and accordion), was made up of Rüdiger Carl (tenor ...
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"Alessandro Bosetti, from Milan, Italy, but who has been living in Berlin since 2000, is a composer of electro-acoustic music, an author of experimental radio plays, one of the central figures of the Berlin improv scene, label boss and soprano saxophone player. Zona ...
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"Boom Box is one of the first recordings of Norbert Möslang after the break up of Voice Crack, his legendary Duo with Andi Gühl which lasted a good 30 years. It was performed in October 2001 in Cologne's Loft with Günter Müller. Since the early 90's, Müller and ...
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""Honey Pie", recorded live in France in May 2001, is the second part of the three-part series with recordings documenting the cooperation of Keith Rowe and Oren Ambarchi. Part 1 was the CD Thumb (GROB 432, recently re-released, Rowe/Ambarchi/Avenaim in a quintet with ...
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"The 35-year-old Wertmüller played for years as the drummer in the Swiss Free Core/12-tone Death Metal band Alboth!. As an improvising musician he can be heard with Peter Brötzmann and Stephan Wittwer. His compositions are performed all over the world. die zeit. eine ...
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"Eruption pushes the process of reflection ­ reflections upon improvised music, the contemporary character of Free Jazz, the energy of Speed Metal, and of course the reflections upon Takayanagi ­ even further towards independence. One hour of music, 40 tracks (the ...
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"GROB continues the successful cooperation with the Viennese trumpeter and composer Franz Hautzinger (GROB 211, 313/4, 425 and 435, for the near future, a release is planned of a quartet with Gene Coleman, Otomo Yoshihide and Sachiko M.). On Brospa, Hautzinger meets the ...
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"In November 2001 Carl and Johansson met in Johansson's Berlin studio, grabbed the bassist Joe Williamson (see his fresh solo CD on GROB, The Ungrateful Carjacker, 536) and played a homage to New York: "No Moon at All," "The Breeze and I," "I Should Care," "You and the ...
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